The long-awaited new novel from the author of the bestsellers “My Posthumous Adventures”, “Once Upon a Time There Was an Old Lady” and “Quench My Sorrows”! New case of German police detective Countess Apraksina. Investigation of a mysterious murder among the Russian emigration, where millionaires and politicians, bohemians and scammers, monks and aristocrats, new emigrants and descendants of the “first wave” move. Who and why needed to kill a failed artist, gigolo and adventurer? Is this death connected with his scandalous “amorous” adventures? And didn’t the crime become a cruel “retribution for love”?